CVE-2019-17570: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

January 23, 2020 (updated February 2, 2020)

An untrusted deserialization was found in the org.apache.xmlrpc.parser.XmlRpcResponseParser:addResult method of Apache XML-RPC library. A malicious XML-RPC server could target a XML-RPC client causing it to execute arbitrary code. Apache XML-RPC is no longer maintained and this issue will not be fixed.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-17570;
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17570

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